doublethink
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doublethink
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From double + think. Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
noun doublethinks
- The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them as true or correct; an instance of doing so. The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?
verb doublethinks · doublethinking · doublethought
- To engage in doublethink. "So we both doublethought our way around the inevitable as long as we could because we both really want the same thing and we both have policy problems with our superiors.” “I'm not sure I follow you,” Lindblad said, in a tone of voice[…]
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noun the holding of two contradictory beliefs
| Español | doblepensar |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 二重思考 |
| 中文 | 雙想 /双想 shuāngxiǎng, 雙重思想 /双重思想 shuāngchóng sīxiǎng, 双重思想 shuāngchóng sīxiǎng |
| Português | duplipensar, duplopensar |
| Français | doublepensée |
| Deutsch | Doppeldenk |
| Italiano | bispensiero, bipensiero |
| Русский | двоемы́слие dvojemýslije |
| עברית | דּוּ חוֹשֵׁב du ḥoshév |
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